Please mark your calendars! The new deadline for abstract submissions is April 15 of each year. The 2020 Call for Papers for the 24th Annual Conference "Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality" will be available March 1, 2019, with the submission deadline of April 15, 2019.

2019 SSWR Doctoral Student Travel Award Program

On behalf of the SSWR Research Capacity Development Committee, please note that the applications for the SSWR Doctoral Student Travel Award are still under review. We received a very high volume of applicants this year. We anticipate that both the awardee and non-awardee email notifications will go out December 7, 2018. Please note that December 7 is also the deadline for the early-bird registration discount. We recommend that you register for the conference at http://secure.sswr.org/2019-conference-home/registration-information/. Should you be one of the 20 applicants who receive a travel award we would then refund your registration.

Application deadline: Monday, October 29, 2018

The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Doctoral Student Travel Award Program is now accepting applications for the 2019 Annual Conference, January 16 – January 20, 2019, in San Francisco, CA. Applications are due Monday, October 29, 2018 (11:59 PM Eastern).

Program Purpose: The SSWR Doctoral Student Travel Award Program is designed to increase the diversity of doctoral student presenters from underrepresented groups by assisting in their ability to attend and present their work at the SSWR Annual Conference with a travel stipend and a complimentary conference registration.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must: 1) be currently enrolled doctoral students; and 2) have received an abstract acceptance as a presenting author for the 2019 SSWR conference. In the application, applicants must also identify as a member of a historically underrepresented racial/ethnic group, be a first-generation college student and/or identify as a member of a disadvantaged group. All eligible applicants must demonstrate a current and significant financial hardship or special circumstances that may adversely impact attendance at the 2019 SSWR conference. Awardees will be selected by the SSWR Research Capacity Development Committee (RCDC).

Awards: Up to twenty travel stipends of $500 each will be distributed at the conference check-in. Stipends are intended to be used to defray costs associated with being a presenter at the 2019 Annual Conference (such as airfare, ground travel, hotel, meals, etc.). Conference registration will be covered for all recipients of the travel stipend.

Application Process:

The application will be a TWO-step process.

#1: Complete all the questions in the online application and

#2: The final question in SurveyMonkey will require you to upload your current CV as a PDF file. You must name your PDF in this format: SSWRDocStuTravel_[last name_first name].